2016年3月4日凌晨,中国近现代声乐教育奠基人之一、享誉世界的歌唱家、上海音乐学院终身教授、“中国之莺”周小燕在上海瑞金医院与世长辞,享年99岁。在那远去的歌声中,我们仿佛又听到了她站在世界歌剧舞台上唱响了中国的音符,又看到了她作为园丁悉心浇灌着国家音乐的种子。中国之莺,世纪之晌;余音绕梁,永世不绝。 Early morning of March 4, 2016, one of the founders of vocal education in modern and contemporary China, a world-famous singer and a tenured professor at Shanghai Conservatory of Music, died at 99 years old at the Ruijin Hospital in Shanghai. In that distant song, we seem to have heard her stand on the stage of the world opera singing Chinese notes, but also saw her as a gardener carefully poured the seeds of national music. Chinese warbler, noon of the century;